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I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

Georgia O'Keeffe

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Appreciate Flower Nobody Paint Perfect Really Reflect Small Time
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Believe Like Rather Something
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Expression Paint Perfect Seem Since Sing Spontaneous
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
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Away Decide New Start Strip Taught
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Flower Friend Nobody Really See Small Take Time
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue – that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyway Bleach Blue Destruction Finish Man Most Sun Wonderful
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Color Found Other Say Shape Thing Way Word
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Anyone Head Myself Near Occur Put Shape Thing Think Way Won
Marks on paper are free – free speech – press – pictures all go together I suppose.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Free Mark Paper Picture Speech Suppose Together
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Aware Closely Concerned Help Individual Paint People Themselves
The days you work are the best days.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Day Work Vest
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Above Country Go Necessary One Say Work
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Feel Something Unexplored Women
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Absolute Keep Life Me Single Terrified Verb Want
To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Art Courage Create One World
I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

Cheaper Flower Hate Model Move Paint

I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

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